Cebu jail raid nets P4.6-M cash, shabu

Over P4.6 million in cash, shabu and assorted drug paraphernalia were seized during a recent “greyhound operation” in Cebu City Jail. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Director General Isidro Lapeña said operatives of PDEA Regional Office 7, the local police and the Philippine Coast Guard’s K9 Unit swooped down on Cebu City Jail’s Main and Annex Buildings in Barangay Kalunasan and seized 48 plastic sachets of shabu, weighing about 70 grams amounting to P240,000; assorted drug paraphernalia; and P4,653,400 cash. Lapeña added that the drugs were recovered from detainees Mark Entece, Marlon Ferolino and Jerome Miñoza. The cash yielded by Miñosa was turned over to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Regional Office 7-Cebu City Jail.